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Chicago examiner friday vol xl no 125 a m friday Chicago may 16 1?1 rtl.itered in u s patent office state's rule of utilities is opposed on record in n.y home rule is the popular demand while politicians and job seekers and the public service corporations are in favor of the state commission plan city interests blocked by power of upper body regulation of rates operation and financial affairs and the holding of Chicago to its limits basis of opposition to measure proposed by the governor | | j ; i > by a staff correspondent springfield may 15.â€”mayor harrison has been in consulta-i tion with governor dunne iu regard to the latter's bill which aims at the establishment of a state pub lic utilities commission the mayor's effort is to preserve control for Chicago of its own street railways telephones gas and electric utilities and the indications are that the governor will consent to some measure of what the mayor desires evidently even the home rule pro j visions of the new regime will how-1 ever be in the hands of a commis j bion instead of being left under the control of the elected officers and the council committee the politicians are naturally all in favor of utility commissions both state and city as this will create a multiplicity of magnificent jobs the smallest salary suggested for com missioners is 10,000 a year which with secretaries general counsel ac countants and others will create a wealth of patronage utilities favor plan it is perhaps not surprising that the public utilities themselves are unanimously in favor of a commis sion the most conspicuous example of this sort of control of street railways i subways telephones and other public j service corporations is that of new york and the corporations have been highly favored there it is due to the public utilities ] commission of that state that the city of new york has just been let in j for a new subway contract that will tie up the city for forty years to a contract in which is was stated at | the hearings there is an aggregate j of more than 100,000,000 of excess profits by the terms of this contract the city guarantees all the present sub way profits pays all possible dam age claims and every cent of interest on the bonds and the sinking fund tot their redemption is paid before i the city itself gets a penny of return on its investment / new york's subway contract has been described as the greatest steal in the history of that often-looted ! city commissions easy t handle 4 it has been pointed out that pub lie service corporations have been able to handle commissions with conspicuously greater success than when they had to deal with elected officers but apparently it is deter mined that the effort to establish a state utilities commission is to be made the governor's bill contemplates a commission of five members to serve six years they will have absolute control of every corporation acting under franchise not only as to rates and operation but as to the issuance of stocks and bonds as well in fact have the widest powers the state can bestow the present draft of the gover nor's bill contains no provision tor the removal of commissioners whom he is to appoint even in the case of incompetence or corruption it makes them state officers and the only way they can be displaced is by impeach ment the corporations have the right of di rect appeal from their decisions to the here's the second mystery of picture can you solve it chis picture is odd we are not surprised that you v/onder v/hy it is here this is the answer the examiner nas purchased and will publish a seriil story more interesting than any chi cago has had it years this picture typifies the story based on the picture what in your judgment is the title j or what ought to be the title of this story five dollars in gold will be paid to each of chs five best letters received in answer to this question the competition will close at 4 o'clock p m satvrday may 17 all answers must be in the examiner office by that hour address your letters tc prize ficti3n editor Chicago examiner tight skirts taboo in paris warning of carolina white singer says american women are not following re=i edict of center of fashion new yokk may lo american women are greatly mistaken in thinking that they are following the edict of paris fashionables iu wearing tight skirts with a slit up the side declared carolina white to-day before she sailed for europe to rest after her season with the Chicago philadelphia opera company these suggestive tight-fitting slashed j gowns are made for a certain class of women whom i am sure the american women would not care to imitate if they really understood said mme white ', worst of all is the practice of mothers dressing tlieir young daughters in these creations such a practice will certainly niiike a young girl brazen if it does not lead to something worse while in england mme white will sing in the covent garden production of the new opera ziugari by leoncavallo count gaston do perigny the french tennis chanipiou indorsed the sentiments of mme wuitu the american girl is glorious he said they should not follow the fash ion customs of any other country but should have a costume typical and dis tinctive of this couutry which should be a setting for her charm fritzi scheff gets decree prima donna divorces john fox jr because of a woman white plain's n i may 15 fritzi scheff the prima don ia eceived her final decree of divorce from john b'ox jr the novelist to-day the decree was granted on tue testimony of two detectives as to the visit to the gerard hotel of fox with an unidentified woman in may 1912 it was rumored that the actress would marry george anderson a member of her company she said site was too busy to marry _ ,â– l â– â€” â€” < palmer family investors in woolfolk firm society leader and sons re vealed as stockholders in realty realization company names as advertising judge barnes who appears in circulars denies he had any shares potter palmer jr mrs potter pal j mer honore palmer willard r wiley j dexter fairbank and scores of other | prominent chicagoaus invested their i money in the realty realization com i pany of which clinton s woolfolk j who died under suc-n strange circum stances at his home in evanston several i weeks ago was the president a receiver | was appointed for the company tues i day in the advertisements of the company j sent all through the middle west cireu i lars were enclosed giving a partial list jof the stock holders the name of judge albert c barnes appears on the list judge barnes denies that he has i now or ever had any stock in the com pany i granville w browning master in chan cery of the circuit court is also named as a stockholder in an interview last evening mr browning stated that a small block of stock was given him by i mr woolfolk before he died and mr browning also stated that he was un aware of the fact that his name was being used as an advertisement other names prominent others whose names appear as stock j holders are perry m shepard president of the wire hardware company stuart ! g shepard of the firm of shepard mccor mick & thomason attorneys w j aiken general agent of the preferred accident insurance company thomas a hall real estate dealer sarl keith treasurer of the Illinois electric com pany william h merrill secretary of the underwriters laboratories clement j si hunt capitalist charles ailing jr j lawyer dr w h wilder dr d a k steele guy j dart of wilson brothers and thomas fay a member of the board of trade iu all there are according to frank hall childs who is the legal representa tive of the realization company some 200 stockholders potter palmer jr stated that his in terest in the concern was comparatively small he declined to state the exact extent of his holdings honore palmer also claimed that the money he had in vested in the company was of no conse quence willard r wiley of marshall field &, co stated that he knew very little about the company except through his attor neys pay roll admitted heavy others interested also stated that they had stock in the company but all said that the amounts were small mr childs admitted yesterday for the first time that the pay roll was really large i do not think that it amounted to siu.ooo for office help alone he said but it was nearly that much i feel confident however that we will pull out of the hole with no difficulty shortly after the death of woolfolk a wealthy rock island banker whose name is said to have been woodruff was ready to put 200,000 into the company with the provision that he was to have a pos ition with the company and that he was to choose the board of directors there was some misunderstanding and j the deal fell through mr childs said that 200,000 at the time of woolfolk's death would have saved the company it also became known that there are over 000 agents for the company in all parts of the west and middle west the majority of them have investments with the company stockholders may meet the company is now under the man agement of henry s judson the vice president the company made big profits said mr childs yesterday and had it not been for the death of the president we would be making big profits yet we paid at least 10 per cent on in vestments and retained a surplus besides this mr childs was unable to even esti mate the number of acres of land owned or controlled by the company there was rumor in the offices of the realization company of a meeting of the stockholders to be held sometime within the next ten days mr childs however stated that he did not believe this possible as the stockholders are scattered over the entire united states mrs woolfolk yesterday expressed con fidence that there would be no great trouble over the affairs of the company a petition for permission to intervene in behalf of mrs winifred d hall 02i(i kimbark avenue in connection with the failure of the company was filed yester day by attorney henry m hasan mrs i3till who is the widow of tnoinas a hall formerly connected with byron lathrop iu real estate business says that her hnsband owned about 6,000 of con vertible stock in the company building under city's protest swept by fire structure at fifty-fifth and in diana stopped by ericsson is â– almost destroyed woman under suspicion neighbors routed by blaze tell of mysterious couple loitering about the premises the three-story apartment house at in diana avenhe and east shifty-fifth street the subject of much strife during the last year and objected to by building commis sioner henry ericsson was almost de stroyed last night by a fire in which a mysterious woman and a man are sus pected to have played a prominent part the buildiug is owned by haskell & blazer and was almost ready for occu pancy joseph haigh owner of the adjoining apartment house at 5444-46 indiana ave nue whose family and five other families had to flee to escape suffocation from : the smoke said he saw a veiled womau enter the building at 8 o'clock last night j and again at 9:30 half an hour before i the fire was discovered the second time she was accompanied by a man and they remained inside for j several minutes the fire started in one of the eight empty stores on the ground floor it was in the fourth store from the end of the i row and the flames rapidly ran up the rear porches to the roof before the fire men under battalion chief kenyon could get a stream to play the roof was blaz ing third alarm turned in the battalion chief sent out a 15-11 and then a 3-11 alarm by the time the apparatus arrived the flames had taken possession of almost the entire in terior of the building which covered a space of 150 by 200 feet there is a large courtyard in the rear the smoke poured into the apartment next door and the occupants thinly clad came rushing down the stairways to the street those who had to flee besides the haigh family were those of c t haines j williams and j n coff i saw a veiled woman go into that building at 8 o'clock to-night and this fire ought to be investigated said mr haigh i watched her go in there and wondered what she wanted she re mained in there several minutes she appeared to be carrying something when she went in and did not have jt when she came out however i did not regard it fo particularly until an hour and a half later at 9:30 to he exact the wom an came back this time accompanied by a man fire then discovered they went into the building and re mained for several miuutes and then came out and walked away together it was less than hnlf an hour after that the fire was discovered this ought to be looked into the building had been in course of con struction for months in order to com j plete it it was learned last night that a building loan of 590,000 was obtained from the central trust company the building is said to have been fully in sured in order to satisfy the lenders only a month ago building coininis sloner henry ericsson ordered all work on the apartment houee stopped owing to defects he discovered in the construc tion two of the windows in the rear were too small and the building also required an additional stairway said commis sioner ericsson last night i page is protested as ambassador by british labor union london trades council spreads petition against u s envoy for his economic views special cable to tha examiner london may 16 the london trades council has forwarded a petition to sir edward grey asking him to protest against the appointment of walter hines page as ambassador from the united states the petition states that the new american ambassador is a bitter op ponent of organized labor in his own country and that the action was taken by the london labor body after receiving a letter from the allied trades council of new york state the petition has been forwarded to foreign secretary grey and president wilson and every labor body in the united states has been asked to protest to president wilson against the appoint ment of mr page new york may 15 there will be no knee breeches so far as i can see there will be just a plain american am bassador i am going to london for diplomacy not for entertainment said walter hines page recently appointed ambassador from the united states to the court of st jnines when he sailed to-day on the white star liner baltic to take up his post at london alleged blackmailer taken in wellington i arrest by two of hoyne's men causes excitement in hotel patrons of the wellington hotel were sta'rtled late last night when detectives sheehau anil muruain of state's attorney hoyne-'s office rushed into the place singled out one of the men in the lobby and arrested him the man was rushed to the street placed in a wai'.ijg taxicab and taken to an outlying police station early this morning it was learned from mr hoyne that the man arrested had at tempted to blackmail one of the man agers at the hotel the man whose name i cannot recall had threatened to expose the record of john reeves manager of the hotel bar if he was not paid 1,000 said mr hoyne he had an appointment to meet mr reeves last night whin he came into the hotel my men rushed in and arrested him darrow's third trial taken off calendar illness of fredericks postpones case to be reset on his motion los angeles may 15 clarence dar row will not go to trial for the third time june 10 on the charge of bribery growing out of the selection of the jlc namara jury as tentatively arranged at the conclusion of his second trial as sistant district attorney joseph ford and attorney h l giesler . representing the Chicago lawyer agreed to-day to have the case go off the calendar dis trict attorney fredericks has not recov ered from an illness of several weeks and attorney giesler produced a telegram from darrow agreeing to postponeinut the case will be reset on motion of the district attorney marie rappold wins suit for separation opera singer granted decree from doctor in colorado new york may 15 dr lewis c rappold admitted to friends to-day he had been privately advised that his wife marie kappold who starred as aida in the metropolitan opera company had succeeded in her flght for a divorce the decree was granted in colorado and the husband has not yet been officially noti fied 365,000 cut in light rate is urged for 60,000 users commonwealth edison co.'s 636,000 surplus revenue ls recommended to council com mittee to be distributed in form of reductions 3-cent rate after the second hour is asked open meter requested so that users can verify bills alder man merriam in tilt over com pany's demand report be kept secret until they review it a surplus annual revenue of 630,<hx earned by the commonwealth-edison i company in Chicago wil be distributed in the form of rate reductions among the users of electric light and power if the recommendations in the report of city i electrician palmer are put into effect by | the city council the chief recommendation of the city electrician is that the present rate of fiv cents per uilowat hour for all elec tricity used after the second hour's daily maximum demand be reduced to 3 cents leaving 10 cents as the rate for the first hour and five for the second as flxcd in j the present schedules | applies to power rates the rate of 10 cents for the primary charge 5 cents for the secondary charge and 3 cents for the tertiary charge now applies only to power rates us ex tensions to lighting it is estimated would reduce the rates for 60,000 consumbers to the extent of 360,000 annually the report does not dispose of the remainder of the surplus 271,000 the company contends that it is en titled to this amount annually as a rainy day surplus such appraisal as was made by the city's experts resulted in reducing the valuation of the com pany's properties by 59,312,032 the company's figures as to valuation juue 30 1011 is given as 67,205,590 while the city's experts give the amount as 57,983,558 may verify bills one of the most important recommen dations is that metei-s be installed for measuring the electric current so that consumers be enabled to verify their j bills efforts of the company to have the re port held secret until it could be con sidered by the company's lawyers caused a lively tilt at the meeting of the city ! council's electricity committee yesterday i the commonwealth edison protest came i in the form of a letter from attorney w g seals this requested that the report lie not ! made public until the company's repre sentative could scrutinize it in order that i any matter held objectiouable by the company could be considered it was also objected that the company's com petitors should not be allowed to gain the information which the city is em powered to obtain this corporation is a quasi-public con cern said alderman charles e mer riam who made the fight for immediate i publicity of the report its accounts i should be open to the public it begins j to appear from this objection that there may be dark corners in the company's | affairs if any such exist they should be placed at once under the glare of i publicity , i believe the report should be held confidential until its terms have been considered by the committee returned alderman theodore k long the ordi nance under which the city electrician investigates the corporation is a cou tract ordinance it is not right to re veal secrets of one corporation to another until the committee has decided what ac tion to take recommendations made this corporation is a monopoly re plied mr merriam it is foolish to talk about its rivals it has none alderman merriam's motion to table a motion that the company be allowed to see the report before it was made public carried by a vote of 7 to 6 the recommendations are 1 that the public authorities be rep resented on a future appraisal board 2 that a complaint and service bu reau be established 3 that a reduction in retail rates be now made 4 that maximum demand meters be not installed in the future with some few exceptions for testing 5 that numerous special discounts ap plied to apartment house halls charitable institutions and certain stores be elim inated Â„ _ _ . _ __ miss nellie grant grand daughter of general grant who was married suddenly without her mother's knowledge general grant's grand daughter weds in secret marries naval officer a friend from girlhood without mother's knowledge san francisco may 15 foregoing all the pomp and ceremony dne to the granddaughter of one of america's great est generals nho later became president of the united states miss nellie grant and lieutenant commander william pig gott cronan u s n to-day were mar ried by justice of the peace a t bar nett with only the clerk of the court jeremiah collins as witness the bride gave her age as thirty-one and lieuten ant cronan gave his as thirty-four the engagement of the couple was announced some time ago and an imposing wedding had been planned later in the afternoon the couple left for a brief honeymoon trip but kept their destination a secret lieutenant cronan arrived from the philippines this week after an absence of five years during which time his bride of to-day had not seen him the two have known each other since childhood but had become engaged by letter and had not met since mrs grant her mother did not know of her intention to be married to-day the bride's father ; who is a mining man with interests which keep him in the east considerable part of the time came to san francisco yesterday to be present at the ceremony he did not hear of the secret wedding until this evening greiner is jailed argued with police auto dealer said to have threat ened traffic man's removal arthur w greiner living at the hotel sherman automobile racer and dealer in automobiles was arrested by policeman w s straight on a charge of disorderly conduct early last evening after he is alleged to bave disputed with the police man over the arrest of thomas fisk twenty years old 4707 magnolia avenue fisk who gave his occupation aa a clerk was arrested at park bow and south michigan avenue for failure to obey straight's signal to stop both men with a friend of greiner's drove straight to the south clark street station there greiner is said to have threatened to have the policeman removed to an other part of the city and was arrested at once and later was released on bond monkey arrested as n.w.u.co-eds feed it wilson calls war officials after visit from chinda president confers with secre taries garrison and daniels after the japanese ambassa dor sends gov johnson's reply on anti-alien land law u.s torpedo fleet and cruiser are under orders maryland sails from san pedro under sealed orders and flo tilla is put in readiness for cruise mikado's answer to california's expected at once washington may 15 tha important incidents of th japanese situation to-da were these at 3 o'clock ambassador chinda called upon the administration for i the official text of governor john ! son's message announcing his intent tion to sign the california land bill the document was delivered to him by acting secretary moore the ambassador's visit and interview were brief immediately upon the retirement of baron chinda there was a confer ience at the white house between president wilson secretary of war garrison secretary of the navy dan iels and acting secretary of state moore the cruiser maryland set out from san pedro under sealed orderÃŸ but it was announced that she is going on a coaling test torpedo fleet under orders it is also stated that the torpedo | flotilla has received orders and will set out at once from san diego whether the movement of th maryland and the reported orders to the torpedo fleet have any connec tion with the present situation is no't known but the fact that they are un der orders is admitted in a state ment from the white house to-nighl this statement however 1s d cidedly pacific in tone and to to th effect that no orders will be given for the movement of warships to th j pacific during the negotiations w.-a japan over the california land blll japs to rush reply ambassador chinda has forwarded the johnson letter to tokio if the japanese government act in this in stance with the same swiftness that has characterized its conduct hereto fore baron chinda will doubtless re jceive an answer to-night or to-mor row morning mr bryan absent from to-dmj'b conference will doubtless be present at the cabinet meeting to-morrow the situation to-night stands un changed just as the examiner baa outlined the demand of japan is for the vindication of its national honor which is generally regarded as a pre liminary for an even stronger de mand for citizenship in the several american states as the conferring body gathered at the white house to-day would rep resent the war council of the admin istration in case of hostilities the conference was deemed in the high est degree significant situation becomes strained the atmosphere of apprehension was increased by the absolute silence preserved by each of the participants toward the press and the public not a word could be extracted from any one of them relating to the subject of this sudden and significant assem blage of the diplomatic and war branches of the government notwithstanding this silence it be came known after the call of the am bassador and his receipt of governor johnson's declaration that friction between the two governments had be come more strained over night this caused much excitement in the state war and uury buildings the ex citement was intensified by the following conference between the president and tha secretaries of war and the navj with the acting secretary of state it is unofficially stated that orfem m continued on 2d page sth column | Chicago and vicinity gen i â– *â€¢ i.-wfj erally fair friday and saturday cooler friday moderate variable j stir range of temperatures yesterday v gour highest 7 lowest 50 j\\v *"*" average 65 ' automobile bargains the thousands of prospective automobile and motorcycle buyers should read every line of the automobile columns in the want ad and real estate section of sunday's examiner with the co-operation of individual owners and prominent dealers we will offer an unusually large number of bargains in new and second-hand cars these offerings will mean a saving to hundreds of those who are about to buy a motorcar or motorcycle the examiner's sworn statement of circulation for april average number of copies of each issue of this publication cold or distributed through the mails or otherwise to paid subscribers during the month of april daily examiner 240,127 sunday examiner 609,192

Chicago examiner friday vol xl no 125 a m friday Chicago may 16 1?1 rtl.itered in u s patent office state's rule of utilities is opposed on record in n.y home rule is the popular demand while politicians and job seekers and the public service corporations are in favor of the state commission plan city interests blocked by power of upper body regulation of rates operation and financial affairs and the holding of Chicago to its limits basis of opposition to measure proposed by the governor | | j ; i > by a staff correspondent springfield may 15.â€”mayor harrison has been in consulta-i tion with governor dunne iu regard to the latter's bill which aims at the establishment of a state pub lic utilities commission the mayor's effort is to preserve control for Chicago of its own street railways telephones gas and electric utilities and the indications are that the governor will consent to some measure of what the mayor desires evidently even the home rule pro j visions of the new regime will how-1 ever be in the hands of a commis j bion instead of being left under the control of the elected officers and the council committee the politicians are naturally all in favor of utility commissions both state and city as this will create a multiplicity of magnificent jobs the smallest salary suggested for com missioners is 10,000 a year which with secretaries general counsel ac countants and others will create a wealth of patronage utilities favor plan it is perhaps not surprising that the public utilities themselves are unanimously in favor of a commis sion the most conspicuous example of this sort of control of street railways i subways telephones and other public j service corporations is that of new york and the corporations have been highly favored there it is due to the public utilities ] commission of that state that the city of new york has just been let in j for a new subway contract that will tie up the city for forty years to a contract in which is was stated at | the hearings there is an aggregate j of more than 100,000,000 of excess profits by the terms of this contract the city guarantees all the present sub way profits pays all possible dam age claims and every cent of interest on the bonds and the sinking fund tot their redemption is paid before i the city itself gets a penny of return on its investment / new york's subway contract has been described as the greatest steal in the history of that often-looted ! city commissions easy t handle 4 it has been pointed out that pub lie service corporations have been able to handle commissions with conspicuously greater success than when they had to deal with elected officers but apparently it is deter mined that the effort to establish a state utilities commission is to be made the governor's bill contemplates a commission of five members to serve six years they will have absolute control of every corporation acting under franchise not only as to rates and operation but as to the issuance of stocks and bonds as well in fact have the widest powers the state can bestow the present draft of the gover nor's bill contains no provision tor the removal of commissioners whom he is to appoint even in the case of incompetence or corruption it makes them state officers and the only way they can be displaced is by impeach ment the corporations have the right of di rect appeal from their decisions to the here's the second mystery of picture can you solve it chis picture is odd we are not surprised that you v/onder v/hy it is here this is the answer the examiner nas purchased and will publish a seriil story more interesting than any chi cago has had it years this picture typifies the story based on the picture what in your judgment is the title j or what ought to be the title of this story five dollars in gold will be paid to each of chs five best letters received in answer to this question the competition will close at 4 o'clock p m satvrday may 17 all answers must be in the examiner office by that hour address your letters tc prize ficti3n editor Chicago examiner tight skirts taboo in paris warning of carolina white singer says american women are not following re=i edict of center of fashion new yokk may lo american women are greatly mistaken in thinking that they are following the edict of paris fashionables iu wearing tight skirts with a slit up the side declared carolina white to-day before she sailed for europe to rest after her season with the Chicago philadelphia opera company these suggestive tight-fitting slashed j gowns are made for a certain class of women whom i am sure the american women would not care to imitate if they really understood said mme white ', worst of all is the practice of mothers dressing tlieir young daughters in these creations such a practice will certainly niiike a young girl brazen if it does not lead to something worse while in england mme white will sing in the covent garden production of the new opera ziugari by leoncavallo count gaston do perigny the french tennis chanipiou indorsed the sentiments of mme wuitu the american girl is glorious he said they should not follow the fash ion customs of any other country but should have a costume typical and dis tinctive of this couutry which should be a setting for her charm fritzi scheff gets decree prima donna divorces john fox jr because of a woman white plain's n i may 15 fritzi scheff the prima don ia eceived her final decree of divorce from john b'ox jr the novelist to-day the decree was granted on tue testimony of two detectives as to the visit to the gerard hotel of fox with an unidentified woman in may 1912 it was rumored that the actress would marry george anderson a member of her company she said site was too busy to marry _ ,â– l â– â€” â€” < palmer family investors in woolfolk firm society leader and sons re vealed as stockholders in realty realization company names as advertising judge barnes who appears in circulars denies he had any shares potter palmer jr mrs potter pal j mer honore palmer willard r wiley j dexter fairbank and scores of other | prominent chicagoaus invested their i money in the realty realization com i pany of which clinton s woolfolk j who died under suc-n strange circum stances at his home in evanston several i weeks ago was the president a receiver | was appointed for the company tues i day in the advertisements of the company j sent all through the middle west cireu i lars were enclosed giving a partial list jof the stock holders the name of judge albert c barnes appears on the list judge barnes denies that he has i now or ever had any stock in the com pany i granville w browning master in chan cery of the circuit court is also named as a stockholder in an interview last evening mr browning stated that a small block of stock was given him by i mr woolfolk before he died and mr browning also stated that he was un aware of the fact that his name was being used as an advertisement other names prominent others whose names appear as stock j holders are perry m shepard president of the wire hardware company stuart ! g shepard of the firm of shepard mccor mick & thomason attorneys w j aiken general agent of the preferred accident insurance company thomas a hall real estate dealer sarl keith treasurer of the Illinois electric com pany william h merrill secretary of the underwriters laboratories clement j si hunt capitalist charles ailing jr j lawyer dr w h wilder dr d a k steele guy j dart of wilson brothers and thomas fay a member of the board of trade iu all there are according to frank hall childs who is the legal representa tive of the realization company some 200 stockholders potter palmer jr stated that his in terest in the concern was comparatively small he declined to state the exact extent of his holdings honore palmer also claimed that the money he had in vested in the company was of no conse quence willard r wiley of marshall field &, co stated that he knew very little about the company except through his attor neys pay roll admitted heavy others interested also stated that they had stock in the company but all said that the amounts were small mr childs admitted yesterday for the first time that the pay roll was really large i do not think that it amounted to siu.ooo for office help alone he said but it was nearly that much i feel confident however that we will pull out of the hole with no difficulty shortly after the death of woolfolk a wealthy rock island banker whose name is said to have been woodruff was ready to put 200,000 into the company with the provision that he was to have a pos ition with the company and that he was to choose the board of directors there was some misunderstanding and j the deal fell through mr childs said that 200,000 at the time of woolfolk's death would have saved the company it also became known that there are over 000 agents for the company in all parts of the west and middle west the majority of them have investments with the company stockholders may meet the company is now under the man agement of henry s judson the vice president the company made big profits said mr childs yesterday and had it not been for the death of the president we would be making big profits yet we paid at least 10 per cent on in vestments and retained a surplus besides this mr childs was unable to even esti mate the number of acres of land owned or controlled by the company there was rumor in the offices of the realization company of a meeting of the stockholders to be held sometime within the next ten days mr childs however stated that he did not believe this possible as the stockholders are scattered over the entire united states mrs woolfolk yesterday expressed con fidence that there would be no great trouble over the affairs of the company a petition for permission to intervene in behalf of mrs winifred d hall 02i(i kimbark avenue in connection with the failure of the company was filed yester day by attorney henry m hasan mrs i3till who is the widow of tnoinas a hall formerly connected with byron lathrop iu real estate business says that her hnsband owned about 6,000 of con vertible stock in the company building under city's protest swept by fire structure at fifty-fifth and in diana stopped by ericsson is â– almost destroyed woman under suspicion neighbors routed by blaze tell of mysterious couple loitering about the premises the three-story apartment house at in diana avenhe and east shifty-fifth street the subject of much strife during the last year and objected to by building commis sioner henry ericsson was almost de stroyed last night by a fire in which a mysterious woman and a man are sus pected to have played a prominent part the buildiug is owned by haskell & blazer and was almost ready for occu pancy joseph haigh owner of the adjoining apartment house at 5444-46 indiana ave nue whose family and five other families had to flee to escape suffocation from : the smoke said he saw a veiled womau enter the building at 8 o'clock last night j and again at 9:30 half an hour before i the fire was discovered the second time she was accompanied by a man and they remained inside for j several minutes the fire started in one of the eight empty stores on the ground floor it was in the fourth store from the end of the i row and the flames rapidly ran up the rear porches to the roof before the fire men under battalion chief kenyon could get a stream to play the roof was blaz ing third alarm turned in the battalion chief sent out a 15-11 and then a 3-11 alarm by the time the apparatus arrived the flames had taken possession of almost the entire in terior of the building which covered a space of 150 by 200 feet there is a large courtyard in the rear the smoke poured into the apartment next door and the occupants thinly clad came rushing down the stairways to the street those who had to flee besides the haigh family were those of c t haines j williams and j n coff i saw a veiled woman go into that building at 8 o'clock to-night and this fire ought to be investigated said mr haigh i watched her go in there and wondered what she wanted she re mained in there several minutes she appeared to be carrying something when she went in and did not have jt when she came out however i did not regard it fo particularly until an hour and a half later at 9:30 to he exact the wom an came back this time accompanied by a man fire then discovered they went into the building and re mained for several miuutes and then came out and walked away together it was less than hnlf an hour after that the fire was discovered this ought to be looked into the building had been in course of con struction for months in order to com j plete it it was learned last night that a building loan of 590,000 was obtained from the central trust company the building is said to have been fully in sured in order to satisfy the lenders only a month ago building coininis sloner henry ericsson ordered all work on the apartment houee stopped owing to defects he discovered in the construc tion two of the windows in the rear were too small and the building also required an additional stairway said commis sioner ericsson last night i page is protested as ambassador by british labor union london trades council spreads petition against u s envoy for his economic views special cable to tha examiner london may 16 the london trades council has forwarded a petition to sir edward grey asking him to protest against the appointment of walter hines page as ambassador from the united states the petition states that the new american ambassador is a bitter op ponent of organized labor in his own country and that the action was taken by the london labor body after receiving a letter from the allied trades council of new york state the petition has been forwarded to foreign secretary grey and president wilson and every labor body in the united states has been asked to protest to president wilson against the appoint ment of mr page new york may 15 there will be no knee breeches so far as i can see there will be just a plain american am bassador i am going to london for diplomacy not for entertainment said walter hines page recently appointed ambassador from the united states to the court of st jnines when he sailed to-day on the white star liner baltic to take up his post at london alleged blackmailer taken in wellington i arrest by two of hoyne's men causes excitement in hotel patrons of the wellington hotel were sta'rtled late last night when detectives sheehau anil muruain of state's attorney hoyne-'s office rushed into the place singled out one of the men in the lobby and arrested him the man was rushed to the street placed in a wai'.ijg taxicab and taken to an outlying police station early this morning it was learned from mr hoyne that the man arrested had at tempted to blackmail one of the man agers at the hotel the man whose name i cannot recall had threatened to expose the record of john reeves manager of the hotel bar if he was not paid 1,000 said mr hoyne he had an appointment to meet mr reeves last night whin he came into the hotel my men rushed in and arrested him darrow's third trial taken off calendar illness of fredericks postpones case to be reset on his motion los angeles may 15 clarence dar row will not go to trial for the third time june 10 on the charge of bribery growing out of the selection of the jlc namara jury as tentatively arranged at the conclusion of his second trial as sistant district attorney joseph ford and attorney h l giesler . representing the Chicago lawyer agreed to-day to have the case go off the calendar dis trict attorney fredericks has not recov ered from an illness of several weeks and attorney giesler produced a telegram from darrow agreeing to postponeinut the case will be reset on motion of the district attorney marie rappold wins suit for separation opera singer granted decree from doctor in colorado new york may 15 dr lewis c rappold admitted to friends to-day he had been privately advised that his wife marie kappold who starred as aida in the metropolitan opera company had succeeded in her flght for a divorce the decree was granted in colorado and the husband has not yet been officially noti fied 365,000 cut in light rate is urged for 60,000 users commonwealth edison co.'s 636,000 surplus revenue ls recommended to council com mittee to be distributed in form of reductions 3-cent rate after the second hour is asked open meter requested so that users can verify bills alder man merriam in tilt over com pany's demand report be kept secret until they review it a surplus annual revenue of 630,